Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Norman Cousins
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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
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History is a vast early warning system.
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The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
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What was significant about the laughter... Was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person...a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Government in the U.S. Today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
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The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.
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A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
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